As expression of my BIG thanks for all those who posted in the past months so many interesting things here on this board which I enjoyed a lot to read!!
As you recognize, I'm still here around
- even regulary - but haven't had the time to comment all the nice posts due to a lot of other obligations which are still going on in my life. But more then one of your posts made my day! So again - BIG THANKS to everyone!
But I write also for all those who might be in similar situation as I'm beeing mostly in the last time..... -
Reut informed and asked:
Thanks for finding the exact schedule, reut. I knew about this gala but your information helped a lot as, I was sending a mail to one of the attending clubs before you made the above post but didn't get a response and hadn't found time in the beginning of the week to search again for updates.
Till the last minute I was not knowing if I might be able to go to the upper mentioned gala, even I liked so much....
Here now my report. - Hope you like it.
More or less on the spot
arriving at 15.02 h in Malley, we (a family member and I) spot Stéphane with his gymnastic pad walking to the entrance of the skaters
. - Good to know that he has arrived
!
When we came into the arena the speach entrance speach just ended. So we didn't something really important for us....
Many nice and different performances of skaters of different ages and skills enjoyed us during this gala. 17 out of 26 clubs of the "Association de Patinage Romande" - ARP hat prepared an own program with skaters of their club during the next few hours.
Besides we watched in the first part also the nice program of Nicola Todeschini who attended in January YOG and at the end Stéphane with DSTM
. He was welcomed with a huge applause.
(I tried to film. But as I'm so untalented in this issue, it didn't once again not work out. So I'm very sorry to tell that there will not come any vids from my side
. - But as I have seen quite some other people filming, might be that you will have the chance to discover vids from other people on youtube or other places later on. I saw even a professional camera filming. Might be, that a DVD might come on sell later on. However could not find out by yet. Perhaps someone-else here will.)
DSTM war nearly once again perfect. Stéphane was very in the music.
On the second part we enjoyed again performances of different clubs and also the performance of the junior Swiss national champion ladies: Laure Nicodet and just afterwards the entire "cadre elite de la Romandie" for which Stéphane choreographed there program, like we learned from a earlier TV report here on this board.
The final performance was again Stéphane, this time with Rigoletto. He was very much in the music and you could literally feel how much he enjoyed to perform this program!
For me he enjoyed it even more then DSTM.
Then the final: every club with his skaters was called in the rink by Cédric Monod (who let already eloquent to the entire program before ). And then in the middle of the rink making a ring with all the elite skaters of the association also Stéphane.
Then followed Laureates to different persons while all the skaters still on the ice. First of them was Stéphane as "special guest". He received a nice gift bag as well as some other people.
At the very end all skaters turned rounds on the ice. So many skaters that was great to see! Stéphane was as mostly only as point in the foul visible
.
When officially the gala was finished, one club asked for a photo together with Stéphane.
Imagine what happenend
- Other clubs followed this idea and started also to ask for pics together with him. And Stéphane in his generosity took time to satisfy those wishes. - Don't ask me if made with every club a pic at the end
, because I didn't count ;D .
So far my short report. - And now up for packing for going to Nice tomorrow, yeeaaaaah!!
(Sorry for my English, already very late here as I had to write this report a bit in a hurry.)